Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1909 — Mt. Ayr Is Also Ready For the Six-Town League. [ARTICLE]

Mt. Ayr Is Also Ready For the Six-Town League.

“Chick" Parke, the lad who handled the hot ones that came near the second corner sack for the Mt. Ayr baseball team last year, was In Rensselaer today and paid the Republican officer a visit. He says that Mt Ayr will play baseball thia summer, and that the members of the team are heartily Ik favor of the formation of a league, to be composed of adjacent towns. If the league can be formed, including the towns of Mt. Ayr, Brook, Wolcott, Oxford, Fowler and Rensselaer, and a schedule arranged that will start about May 15th, it should be a success, and "Chick" says that Mt. Ayr is ready to put Up its money and do its part of the work any time that a meeting is called. Brook is also ready. Nothing has been heard from Wolcott, but that town can get up a ball team on an hour’s notice, and with such energetic fans as Lou and Lou Hammond Wolcott could probably be relied upon to come in good and strong. Oxford has already, organized with a strong team, and Fowler will also have a team. It Ig therefore simply a matter of getting together. If a meeting was called at Rehsselaeir for some day next week it would probably start the ball to rolling. "Chick" thinks tbit Mt Ayr will be tolerably strong this year. The team has secured ar new catcher in the perton of Peck, of Wadena. The bSlaiice of the team Ik as foUbws’. WiHfti pitcher; Anderson, let base; Parke, 2nd base; Shlndeler, short stop; Schock, 3rd base; Dennison, Bruner, Hopkins and Hufty, fielders.